[linux-audio-dev] RDF for CAPS plugins

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Apr 21 11:29:53 UTC 2006


On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:51:32 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Paul Winkler:
> > OTOH, it's pretty obvious why this is the case. 
> > Imagine if it *did* have to resolve to something.  
> > What would that mean?
> 
> That's a slightly perplexing detail even with the 
> situation as it is.  What if the URI *does* resolve as 
> a URL?  Would a host that looked up the URL and did 
> something with the results (doesn't matter what, but 
> let's imagine that the host defines the thing it will do 
> and does it consistently) be committing a fundamental error?

There is no particular reason for a machine to ever resolve that URI, it's
just an identifier, but a human might well want to.

- Steve



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